Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week brought "Double Ten" (the tenth day of the tenth month) again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
Lieut General Wedemeyer has always been antiCommunist. He was anti-Communist during his earlier mission to China as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944 et seq.). His report on the Chinese situation could not be anything but antiCommunist, and probably favored U.S. aid to China. If so, it was big news to both countries. What (or who), Americans wondered last week, was holding up its publication...
Tihua Picnics. Last week General Chang submitted to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a five-year plan for Sinkiang's reconstruction. Under it Nanking would send 60 or 70 technicians to develop agriculture and mining in the northwest. A large financial grant would be made...
...Manchuria, Chiang Kai-shek's trusted Chief of Staff Chen Cheng was cleaning house among grafting politicos and generals ; he had had at least two generals shot, some 30 more jailed...
...typical guerrilla strategy: "To hold on to a city till death is just the same as carrying a burden. If we do not give up certain cities when necessary, we would be stuck and on the defensive everywhere. If we threw away these burdens when we should, and let Chiang Kai-shek take them up one by one, his burdens will grow until finally he will be unable to walk...